http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/libido Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:49:19 -0400 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:49:19 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/302/libido-and-thanatos-in-tobias-wolffs-the-night-in-question By Rebecca A. Demarest - Lucius Annaeus Seneca once said that “All art is but imitation of nature” (Bartlett’s 106) and this has held true for the centuries following him, nature and life reflected in the art and literature of its time. Art shows life in a distilled and refined vision, life perfectly encapsulated in a painting, sculpture, or short story. Tobias Wolff’s The Night in Question follows in this time honored tradition, mimicking humanity’s most basic drives and desires. Sigmund Freud hypothesized that the two most basic drives in all of mankind are the Libido and Thanatos: the... Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:27 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/302/libido-and-thanatos-in-tobias-wolffs-the-night-in-question